... community organisation that promotes the Irish language in Ireland and abroad. The League’s primary objective is the reinstatement of the Irish language as the common tongue of Ireland. Since its founding in 1893, members have been actively promoting ...
Emmett McIntyre - Dec 22 2015 - 5:24am - 0 comments
... in the EU signed the military cooperation agreement, Ireland being one of 5 which did not sign. However, the same month the Irish ... in favour of Irish participation in PESCO. This is against Ireland’s policy of neutrality and in fact contrary to the Irish Constitution ...
Alastair Kneale - Feb 21 2018 - 5:05pm
... election has raised the issue in Dáil Éireann (Assembly of Ireland). Yesterday (June 14) he questioned the Taoiseach (head of Irish ... Irish Post newspaper there have been growing demands for Ireland to ban the export of Irish greyhounds to the notorious Canidrome ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Jun 16 2016 - 1:57am - 0 comments
... from the town of Downpatrick, County Down, in the north of Ireland (Irish: Dún Pádraig, Contae an Dúin, Tuaisceart Éireann). It is on ... there is an inner doorway opening into a chamber with a stone vault and a number of gun-loops. Further in there is a another chamber. ...
Anonymous (not verified) - May 20 2021 - 1:06am
... was held on Saturday at Lissadell House, Sligo in Ireland to mark the 90th anniversary of the death of Constance Markievicz ... Markievicz told the court, "I went out to fight for Ireland's freedom and it does not matter what happens to me. I did what I ... the first Dáil Éireann an independent legislature for Ireland which met in Dublin. She went on to become the second woman in the ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Jul 18 2017 - 1:33am
... tomb. A chamber and passage is covered and walled by stone slabs. A cup marked stone, now in the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro, was ... two large uprights which are aligned to the Merry Maidens circle to the northeast. The site is close to the Merry Maidens Stone Circle. ...
Anonymous (not verified) - May 11 2013 - 5:21pm
... Approximately 40,000 tonnes of seaweed is harvested in Ireland, more than 95 per cent of it naturally grown. It pruduces high-value ... to seaweed, registered in seven counties along the coast of Ireland; Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Galway, Mayo, Clare and Donegal. Canadian ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Jul 3 2018 - 9:17am
... in County Down (Irish: Contae an Dúin) in the north-east of Ireland for the past 30 years. It was originally found having been caught in ... from a German U-boat. It sank off the southern coast of Ireland, roughly 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale (Irish, An Seancheann) ...
Alastair Kneale - Apr 5 2018 - 7:21pm
... Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (legislature) of Ireland. At the election 159 of 160 Dáil Éireann seats were contested, with ... seats from 2016. The election was held at a time when Ireland's electorate have become increasingly dissatisfied with the present ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Feb 11 2020 - 10:39pm
Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how ... offerings in lakes and rivers. New material is examined on Ireland's contact with the Roman world and the final chapter reviews whether La ...
Anonymous (not verified) - Apr 28 2013 - 7:30pm